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This reminds me of when I was about three. I lifted a box of Vulcan matches from the mantelpiece in my aunt's house to examine the label. But of course I couldn't read. So I held out the box and...

I’m in Scotland today and phoned the local Sainsbury’s store to find out if it stocked three cigarette brands I was looking for. The lady I spoke to on the tobacco counter said she couldn’t provide...

Very worrying.

Some good ideas. But if the Scottish government legalised cannabis they would have to ensure that the quality of the product was consistent as it is with all other legal drugs. The trouble right now...

Hear, hear! Couldn't agree more.

Great idea. There are far too many teachers who've never had experience of anything apart from education. They leave school; go to uni; got to teacher training college; and go straight back into...

Thanks for the link Ginny. I have been worried about this lot for some time. People really ought to be aware of them.

I must disagree. Scotland is only enjoying lots of benefits at the moment because the Scottish government is using the vast sums it gets from Westminster to pay for them. There's no doubt that such...

Well put. I agree.

In an independent Scotland all these benefits would go by the board.

Spot on. I thoroughly agree with you.

When the dust had settled in South Lanarkshire there was a general consensus to vote back in the Labour leader that's been running the council for years. His brother Tommy meanwhile, a South...

When on earth is the Scottish government going reform the common law offence of Breach of the Peace? For years it has been to vague, too all-encompassing and overly-reliant on precedent. Breach of...

I cannot help getting the impression that, in the main, journalists of all leanings and politicians of all parties are as thick as thieves and frequently conspire to manipulate the public whenever it...

Doesn't augur awfully well for an independent Scotland, does it?

Although I live in England most of the time I was born in Scotland to Scottish parents, own a house in Scotland and pay council tax on that house to a Scottish local authority. I also pay a local...

Methinks you're dead right :).

We haven't always had a recession. But the apathy has always been around and has got increasingly worse since (most likely) 1967.


And that was great. Labour (or rather New Labour) needed...

Another excellent piece, internetcynic . I agree with all you say.

I really like that one :).

Well said!

I read several newspapers every day, including The Daily Mail.



I do indeed. It's called 'personal experience' of many years standing. And if you had the same kind of experience you would not...

No. I just have a problem with 'the figures'. They do not appear to match 'the reality', or the position of Scotland that is there for everyone to see if they look closely enough with an impartial...

I firmly believe that Scotland does not have the earning power to survive as an independent nation.

Back in the 1960s it may have been a different story because we had lots of factories making...

Do you believe that this will be true even if the SNP loses the independence referendum?